Your name is John Egbert and you're not entirely sure why you're waking up from bed. Last you remember, the new game beta you received had finished loading up and you initialized it. After that... You guess you can't remember.

Honestly, it seems more like a particularly boring dream more than anything to worry about. In fact, the only reason why you seem to be perturbed in the first place is because you don't remember changing your sheets from the kick-ass Green Slime Ghost set to a plain white set.

A quick scan shows a very plain, clean room. It's mostly in white, almost to a scary level, with a lot of plain light coming from the ceiling lights. There's a computer to the left, a box and a chest of drawers by the bed, and a small rug in the center of the room.

>All I ask from you is this:>Remeber to gather all you need from this room before you leave this time. You don't want another incident like last time you forgot your items.>It would behoove you to be careful.>It is now your first day, once again.

Most of the red book has odd language in it, symbols that make no sense to you whatsoever, besides all of the zeroes you see all over the page. There's few drawings and no English or really any sort of writing you've seen before. Adding to it, the paper is thin and fragile, and you're afraid to flip around it much, for fear of tearing a page.

Out of chance, you stumble on a page with some drawings in it, and even some normal alphabet! It looks like a chart, of what you can't say. You can make out the spider and the butterfly easy enough, and the bottom one could be a firefly, but the top righthand corner... A fly? A beetle? Whatever it is, it's making a kree, kree noise underneath it.

Oh... Oh my. There doesn't seem to be anything on the computer. The only thing showing up is this close-up shot of an eye staring right at you.

You try moving around the mouse and typing randomly, thinking it's the screensaver or something. You try using Ctrl-Alt-Del. You even try turning it on and off, but the everlasting eye remains as you shut it on and off. And worse off, it feels like it's tracking you.

You contact Jade first, since she tends to be the expert in weird paranormal shit like this. Maybe she's had a dream involving this weird room before and can give you a clue or at least let you know everything is alright.

Huh. Seems like she's not answering your pesters at the moment. Maybe she's fallen asleep? Normally her dreambot kicks in at that point, but nobody's answering at all. She probably just went to go check on something at her house and left her lunchtop in the garden.

You decide to contact Dave, as he'll probably more to the point and concise, and check the map and check in with Rose if you have enough battery.

(I'll come back with the Dave and possibly the Rose update in the morning. Sorry for leaving off like this, I have work in fifteen minutes and this picture took me a lot longer than I expected)

EB: alright, i'm not in my room anymore
EB: did something happen? its all weird and empty and the computer is messed up. are you okay too man?
TG: alright you know what i said about the skepticism thing
TG: maybe theres some grain of truth in it
TG: sure, dad can maybe get his ass in gear at least once in a while and get that minivan revved the fuck up
TG: but now its obvious you cant just say OH SHIT THERE'S A VAMPIRE EVERYONE GET THE FUCK OUT
TG: you do that shit and next thing you know moms taking a set of knitting needle to your eye and someones running around with cripple legs and your sweet glasses
TG: everyones gone bugshit nuts, breakin windows and trying to smash your face in with your own piece of shit sord
EB: what the hell are you talking about?
TG: don't worry about it
TG: just having a fuckin bad day
TG: again
TG: did i tell you a number?
EB: a number? what?
EB: oh god, you didn't go crazy, did you?
EB: dave, my PDA is dying and i don't have time for this
TG: right apparently things cant be that simple for us this time
TG: look, im actually not too far from you now
EB: wait, really? i thought you were in houston!
TG: well i was
TG: now im oh i dunno
TG: somewhere close check the map when you find that other battery
TG: dont ask about that ill explain when we see each other
TG: rose and jade are somewhere around here

TG: jades up to her eyeballs in weird shit hopefully
TG: shell be the last with us
TG: and rose is just ejaculating magic bullshit on whatever surface she can now that shes getting the hang of this shit
EB: this isn't helping at all, you know?
EB: all i know is that apparently i'm way behind on everything
TG: jegus, im trying to get to the point man
TG: its just ive been thrown for a ludicrous loop, thanks to someone dropping a steaming load of hot bitch into our collective lap
TG: and now im trying to figure out how to get people out of the path of drooling rapeface dickbeasts and ash bitches without sending them to crazy town
TG: argh
TG: and for what its worth your on the same page as everyone else
TG: im just stuck being ahead
EB: oh god
EB: i… i can't even think of what to say to all this
EB: im taking your word for all of this though
EB: you need me to meet up with you first?
TG: it would help
TG: right now is all about getting everyone into the dining room and then we can get to getting some fucking lights on
TG: get your hammer and look for some screaming alien asshole and a battery
TG: trust me, youre going to need a hammer for some of the shit youre going to have to deal with
TG: and i dont want to deal with another person wandering around getting punchraped by something that looks like a bag of rotten dog meat because theyre too lazy to grab a
sickle

EB: hey man, you can count on me for this!
EB: even if we don't all meet up at the dining room, we can always go back for anyone who's missing
EB: no need to let anyone get punch or raped by that horrible shit, we've got this.
TG: alright.
TG: you're probably out of battery at this point
TG: im letting you go now, just be careful
TG: i really dont want to say all this again
TG: 413

It's at that point your PDA finally blacks out. Unfortunately, now you're stuck without a map or a way to contact someone, and apparently Dave's having a bit of a freakout.

Nevertheless, you do believe him on this being the game, or at least you're trying to. What purpose would he have to lie about that anyway? Some sort of incredibly elaborate prank? Even if you disbelieved it, he's put so much effort and ability into this, you're sure this counts as being successfully pranked no matter which way you look at it.